AuthorTopic: new release vl7.1-b0.20 needs testing (Read 40027 times)

Thought I would start a new thread .......so the new testing does not get lost. We just released b-0.20 of our upcoming vl7.1 release and it needs testing. Hopefully most of the bugs have been eradicated this time so please test and see how we did. This release has the new text installer so give it a try and any usability reports appreciated. The text installer at this point crashes making partitions so please have your drive preset before using it. Heres the link to the iso good luck and happy testing and please give as complete a report as possible. With any luck this will be the last test before we make an official beta for public consumption.32 bithttp://vlcore.vectorlinux.com/pkg/untested/veclinux-7.1/iso/VL-7.1-STD-B0.20.iso64 bithttp://vlcore.vectorlinux.com/pkg/untested/veclinux-7.1/iso/VL64-7.1-STD-B0.20.isoCheers,Vec

Some more trials all failed including installing with vinstall-iso-ng.However, I then found that the problem arises when on first boot theautomtic hardware detection starts. That kills all. Int. con. and sound, may be more.

Realizing this I then aborted when it came to finalizing installation, andbelieve it or not I have now a well working installation. Did necessary polishingwith vasm-legacy like time zone and users and avoiding hardware and sound card detection. Survived 3 rebootings.

First, installation option changes are going to cause problems (where you select the three package options). Need to remove the word "only". Otherwise people are not going to select it (like me) and end up with an installation that won't work properly.

After second install, was able to log in via XFCE.

Same issues as before.

Still running into the issue where dhcpcd.conf isn't being written.

Mixer still crashing when trying to adjust volume with mouse wheel. (Even after configuring, it still crashes.)

One GUI installer "advanced" with basic X and dev: Worked fine with a pre-partitioned disk.

One text installer with same selections: Seemed to stall at 4% (hdparm), but there was obvious disk activity so I let it continue. It went to the last screen, and after (manual) reboot I had a working system.

Exaile does not play audio CD; Playback error encountered, uridecodebin0

Changing session to fluxbox. Then in fluxbox click on exit shows a blank fluxbox screen with mouse pointer, however, does not exit. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace brings up the console, no gdm. Command startx goes back to xfce4. Menu-Logout, only logout to console.

Guys, I think we're almost there. Wifi worked immediately upon entering the password and no further editing was needed. Looks like we have that licked for good. Will do more testing this evening and tomorrow.

xfce's window button is not 100% expanding if you configure your panel to length 100%...follow below guide will give a "full expanding" window button area...it might be better to put that in the xfce configuration as default

Qt-config and gkrellm is missing the icon file...txz file is missing the icon too...The default icon theme is not complete...if you change any icon theme some icons will be missing...one way to solve this is to add all the icon theme name to each of the index.theme